Cinnamon Rolls -vegan- and the movie "Kamome Shokudo"

Super sweet icing sugar and scent of spices make me addict to the buns.
Cinnamon rolls is the best for me, and so happy to get a big bite.
While I bake the buns, and the last part of decoration, I am always drizzle lots of icing on top only mine. Fluffy buns, chewy dry fruits and crunchy nuts with spices are absolutely amazing.



Cinnamon roll is Sweden- based pastry and everyone loves it all around this country,
the next country Finnish is also like as well.

 "Kamome shokudo", which is a Japanese movie, filmed in Finland is loved in Japan. A Japanese woman, Sachie runs a diner "Kamome shokudo" in Finland, but she can't get customer so far. Finnish people around her diner are curious about her. She has a policy of her menu, which is called "Onigiri" that is Japanese rice ball, this is Japanese favorite food. One day suddenly she baked cinnamon rolls as menu, customers were coming to eat into her diner, and then after the day, she could get many customers.

Story line is slow, sometimes I lost the point of story because there are filmed about only Japanese women's life in Finland, nothing big events there. However, this movie is very attractive such as the lovely nordic scenary in Helsinki, beautiful tableware which is used in Kamome shokudo, heartwarming conversation between Sachie and her friends and so.
I like Sachie's character, easy but strong willed and generous, and also Sachie's kind hospitality for custmers. She is really charming any time.


http://kamome.fi/ (English)


This picture is an old cafe in the movie. Now the new restraurant is open. The place is on website above.
 



The real "Kamome shokudo" exists in Helsinki, so many Japanese movie funs go filming location tour, I missed it when I visited Finland, though. I want to go grab cinnamon rolls there sometime. My cinnamon rolls are different from Kamome shokudo's recipe.


**Cinnamon Rolls recipe**
9 muffin tins size

250g bread flour
3g dry yeast
120ml warm water(40-50°C)
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp cane sugar
2 tbsp olive oil
60ml soymilk
1/2cup dry cranberries (favorite dry fruits)
1/2cup crushed almond (favorite nuts)
2 tbsp cinnamon sugar (1 tbsp cinnamon and 1 tbsp sugar)
1 tbsp cardamom (if you don't like cardamom, don't need to add)
soymilk or olive oil, and demerara sugar for sprinkle on top
powder sugar and water for icing on top


Make dough;
1. Put yeast and cane sugar in a bowl with 2 tbsp warm water, and place them for a 5 minutes. This warm water is used from out of 120ml warm water.
2. Put bread flour, salt, olive oil and soymilk in another bowl. Add yeast, sugar and water in this bowl and then add add leftover of water into the bowl. Blend them well and make one dough ball.
3. Knead bread dough on the table until smooth and soft.
Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover the bowl. Let it sit until it's doubled in bulk about 1 hour.
4. Punch the dough down, and then put the dough in a bowl, cover it again for 10 minutes.

Fill and shape the buns;
1. Roll the dough into rectangle and spread with olive oil on top.
2. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar, cardamom, crushed almond and cranberries evenly on the dough.
3. Roll the dough into log, and cut it into 9 pieces.
4. Place the buns into the slightly oiled tins and cover the tins.  Let it sit until it's mostly doubled about 50 minutes.

Bake the buns;
1. Spread olive oil or soy milk, and sprinkle demerara sugar on top of the buns.
2. Preheat the oven at 200°C.
3. Uncover the buns, bake them until nice and golden brown about 12-15 minutes.

Make icing;
1. Put powder sugar and add water little by little.
2. Drizzle icing sugar on top of buns while the buns are slightly warm.

☆Serve the buns while warm.

Matcha & Lemon glazed doughnuts - Homemade Pon de Ring-

    

Pon de Ring is most popular doughnuts in Japanese "mister donut" shop, chewy and filling. Also looking pretty.

Eat the best while they are slightly warm. When they are cool down completely or the next day after you made, getting harder. If you eat the next day, warm it up in the microwave for 20 seconds for each.

Speaking of doughnuts, I love Tim Hortons, which is Canadian doughnuts shop. https://www.timhortons.com/
This is techenically not doughnuts shop but best cafe for coffee break with doughnuts.
I can't enjoy Tim in Japan. Wishing have it here, and enjoy our mister donut overseas as well.


**Matcha & Lemon glazed doughnuts recipe**
5-6 pieces for each flavor, smaller size is better

160g  pastry flour
130g shiratamako (Glutinous rice flour)
50g sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1tsp matcha powder
2 eggs
150g firm tofu

powder sugar, lemon juice, butter and matcha powder for doughnuts glaze.


Make dough;
1. Put shiratamako in a bowl and add firm tofu. Mix completely until small chunks of shiratamako is broken.
2. Add sugar and egg into the bowl, and mix them.
3. Add pastry flour and baking powder into the bowl, mix them.
4. Divide into two chunks, mix matcha powder into one of them.
5. Knead the each dough until they becomes big chunks. If you need, add water of flour.
6. Make a small ball by hands are wet with water. Make a ring with 5-6 small balls. Don't make big ones.

Deep fry;
1. Cut 10-12 pieces baking sheet into small squares.
2. Put each doughnut ring on the baking sheet.
3. Prepare oil pot, put oil at least 2 inches of oil at 160°C.
4. Place doughnuts into oil with baking sheets.
5. When remove the baking sheets smoothly, take them out.
6. Flip over once, and fry until nice golden and brown.

Lemon glaze;
30g powder sugar
1 tsp milk
5g butter
1tbsp lemon juice

1. Mix all ingredients in a small pan on heat.
2. Put doughnuts into lemon glaze pan.

Matcha glaze;
30g powder sugar
1 tsp milk
5g butter
1 tsp matcha powder

1. Mix all ingredients in a small pan on heat.
2. Put doughnuts into lemon glaze pan for one side.

                             

"Little Children"

I was going to stop watching this movie without know the end.

The story is about struggles of having an affair Sara(Kate Winslet) and Brad(Patrick Wilson), disgraced ex-police officer Larry, a sex offender Ronnie in suburban Massachusetts.

At first glance, it seems the story for Sara and Brad, but getting to mix with other elements. I wanted to know how to survive for Ronnie and his mother as people who has criminal record.




Jennifer Connelly played Brad's wife, Kathy. She is beautiful as same as when she was child in "Once Upon a Time in America".





We have news in Japan recently, a sort of getting to be gossip, which is about famous actress and her son who committed rape criminal assault. She should protect her son in public or not?
I wanted to know how mother survive with son in society after release from jail in this movie. I couldn't get it, though.

Black Sesame Swiss Roll (Chiffon Cake Roll)

Swiss roll trend has begun since years. It started in here Osaka, which was Dojima Roll as following picture.




We had to wait in line to buy it, and I used to do it. This Dojima Roll is amazing roll which has tons of whipped cream rolled up with fluffy sponge. So heavenly. Even it has lots of sweet whipped cream inside, we can eat like a whole roll.
This trend was spread all over Japan. Now we don't need to be in line, but still it is popular among sweet tooth.

I thought I basically get swiss roll at bake shop, not homemade when I was young. Probably so did my mom. The reason was just too fancy to bake it at home.
Actually it is not. Baking swiss roll is not hard to bake, not take much time, and have fun to bake because we have many variation roll, chocolate, matcha or fruits.

Today's roll tastes black sesame. Nutty flavor of black sesame is matched with fluffy chiffon sponge. There are vegan or healthier recipes on internet and looking great, but I think this fluffy sponge gets only from egg whites. I love it.






**black sesame swiss roll recipe**
18*28 cm(7*11 inch) roll cake baking sheet

4 eggs
70g pastry flour
30g granulated sugar
30g cane sugar
30g black sesame paste
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp milk

200ml heavy cream
10-20g granulated sugar
Powder sugar and some grapes for decoration

1. Separate egg yolks and whites in each bowl.
2. Start beat egg white. Add granulated sugar on the way and make sure glossy. Continue beat until stiff peak. Set aside.
3. Mix egg yolks and cane sugar in a bowl. Add black sesame paste, oil and milk. Blend them well.
4. Add a half batch of egg white into the bowl. Mix them without break meringue. Add the left egg whites into the bowl and mix gently.
5. Shift flour twice and add into the bowl. Mix gently until flour is gone.
6. Pour the batter into the baking sheet on your oven sheet.
7. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
8. Bake for 15-16 minutes.

9. Cool sponge down with wrapped on top to keep moist and easy to take off surface of sponge later.
10. After cool down completely, take off wrapping sheet with the surface of sponge. We don't need brown baked top.
11. Whip heavy cream with sugar until stiff peak.
12. Spread over the sponge almost evenly, just a little thick on the beginning of roll.
Roll the sponge without pausing.
13. Wrap it up with baking sheet and sit in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
14. Cut the edge of roll
15. Sprinkle powder sugar and decorate with fruits and serve it.

Banana Coconut Mini Muffins -vegan-

Banana and coconut suit hot summer every year, and I miss muffins fresh out from the oven all the time.
My mom loved buttery flavor bake and so am I, but today I want something lighter and fluffier muffins.

**Banana and coconut mini muffins recipe**
for 12 pieces mini muffins tin

50g coconut oil
50g soy yogurt
40g soy milk
20g maple syrup
60g cane sugar
20g almond flour
40g coconut powder
100g pastry flour
5g baking powder
coconut flakes on top

1. Blend coconut oil, soy yogurt, soy milk, maple syrup and cane sugar in a bowl.
2. Sieve dry ingredients.
3. Add dry ingredients into the wet ingredients bowl and mix them.
4. Pour the batter into the muffin tin. Sprinkle coconut flakes on top.
5. Preheat oven at 170°.
6. Bake muffins for about 18-20 minutes.

Gluten-free Blueberries Pound Cake -vegan-

Super easy recipe here. I love rice flour pound cake or bread. Paticular chewy texture of rice flour comperaing regular one, small bite is enough for my stomach.

The one thing I am concerned is keeping moist. Rice flour cake is easy to dry, so I don't want to keep for few days. We can eat the next day with drizzling water on top before warming up cake or bread in the oven.
But I recommend to eat it the day you baked.




**Gluten-free Blueberries Pound Cake recipe**
20*8*6cm (8*3*2 inch) pound cake tin

180g soy milk
3 tbsp maple syrup
 (this is less than regular pound cake recipe. If you want, add more)
2tbsp coconut oil
a pinch of salt
180g rice flour
50g almond flour
8g baking powder
150g blueberries

Blueberries, banana and soy cream for decoration

1. Blend all wet ingredients in a bowl.
2. Add a pinch of salt.
3. Shift dry ingredients and put into wet bowl. Blend them thoroughly.
4. Add blueberries into the batter. Mix gently.
5. Pour the batter into cake tin.
6. Bake at 160° in the oven for 50-55 minutes.
7. Cool it down while cover plastic lap on top.

I love this while it is still warm.

Basil & Tomato Vegan Cheese Crackers - vegan-

I baked crackers today using leftover of sake lees.
This is ones I can be addictive.

As I wrote yesterday, cooked sake lees seems like cheese. This is also like cheese crackers.

**sake lees crackers recipe**

<basic crackers resipe>
100g pastry flour
30g sake lees
3g salt
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp water


1. Put flour in a bowl. Add small pieces of sake lees.
2. Add oil and salt into the bowl and blend them with your fingers. Make them like flakes.
3. Add water and make a ball.
4. Put the dough ball into a plastic bag(middle size of Zip lock), and roll out dough until 0.1inch(about 2mm) thick.
5. Cut into pieces or use cookie cutter, transfer to your baking sheet.
6. Bake them until light brown at 170°oven. About for 15 minutes.


<additional flavor>

Dry tomato: put minced dry tomato into flour bowl first.





Basil: Put 2 tbsp basil paste into the flour bowl first.




Black sesami: put 2 tbsp black sesami paste into the flour bowl first. After cutting into small pieces the dough, sprinke demerara sugar, and then bake them.